♤ 2017 summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian PM Narendra Modi in Gujarat renewed impetus for an Indo-Japanese cooperation in line with their calls for an Asia Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) during their summit in November 2016.

♤ The vision, however, comes on the back of decades of cooperation amongst two of Asia’s largest democracies, both seeking an alignment of interests be it under democratic security cooperation or under Abe’s 2006 notion of an Asian ‘Arc of Freedom and Prosperity.